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UUC WEEK AT A GLANCE
July 22nd, Sunday...
Open Issues:
9:30-10:30, Patio Room
Jeff Gow. “Dunedin: Our Heritage, Our Future”
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Jeff is a candidate for the Dunedin City Commission, will tell us about Dunedin history.
Sunday Service:
10:30-11:45
Susan Frederick-Gray
UUA President (video)
"No Time for a Casual Faith"
This week's Pastoral Associate: Kathy Krohn
Share the Plate for July 22nd...
Freedom for Immigrants
is our July Share the Plate selection. Freedom for Immigrants is dedicated to abolishing immigration detention worldwide, while ending the isolation of people currently suffering in this profit-driven system. Through our visitation network, hotline and other initiatives, we are building power together and across borders to end immigration detention. Freedom for Immigrants uses a wide range of advocacy tools, including community organizing, coalition building and legislative advocacy to fight for a country without immigration detention.
For more information go to
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/
. Please be generous.
Join Us for Meditation. 'Exhale' Wednesdays at 6:00-6:45 pm in the Sanctuary
Exhale is continuing during the Summer weeks! We meet Wednesdays 6:00-6:45 pm in the Sanctuary. Come sit or walk with us in a simple format that focuses on breath. Our large sanctuary has room for both sitting and walking meditation. We meditate for 20 minutes or so, stretch, then meditate again. Late-comers welcome, enter softly. Stay for hearty appetizers (we love your offerings too!) and conversation afterward.
Contact Kathy Krohn at:
uuc.kathykrohn@gmail.com
(Note: For now, we won't be online during some summer Wednesdays.)
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From the Refugee Committee:
UUC will be collecting backpacks and school supplies for refugee students again this summer! The 2018-2019 collection will focus on the children of families who have participated in ESL classes at UUC with overflow to be distributed to local schools (Belcher Elementary and Oak Grove Middle School, both of whom have populations of ESL and Title 1 students).
Volunteers will be needed to organize and distribute the backpacks following Backpack Blessing Sunday on August 5. The collection point will be located by the Social Justice table in the Social Hall; feel free to leave your donations in the bin!
Please see the list of backpack supplies needed at this
link
Hard copies will be available on Sunday.
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Meet with Rev. Patrice Curtis
If you would like to meet with Rev. Patrice contact the office at 727-531-7704. If you wish to contact her, please call
(510) 852-9304.
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This Sunday
July 22nd, 2018
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Service
Sunday, 10:30-11:45
Service Leader:
Susan Frederick-Gray
UUA President (video)
"No Time for a Casual Faith"
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Pastoral Care Associates
UUC has a strong team of lay Pastoral Associates who offer confidential, emotional support and spiritual companionship to fellow church members. You can access pastoral care by contacting Rev. Patrice Curtis at 727-531-7704 ext. 5 or
revpatrice@uuc.org
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Please note that emails sent to the front office are not confidential; emails to Rev. Patrice are.
This week’s pastoral care associate is
Drinda Lombardi
and she is
available at
727-531-7704 ext. 5.
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Open Issues
9:30-10:30 am
Patio Room
Jeff Gow. “Dunedin: Our Heritage, Our Future”
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Jeff is a candidate for the Dunedin City Commission, will tell us about Dunedin history.
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Flowers for Sunday Services
If you would like to supply the flowers for an upcoming Sunday service in honor of a special event or person in your life, please email
Laura Daniel
at
flowers@uuc.org
. She will help you coordinate your contribution.
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Have you signed up for a Covenant Group yet for next year? Go
HERE
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Members and Pledging friends!!
Would you or your family like to participate in Sunday Service?
We need YOU to light the Chalice!
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March with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Sunday Aug.5th
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On Sunday August 5, the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
(CIW) will return to Tampa Bay as part of its summer Florida tour to join allies for a march on Publix and Wendy's!
Publix and Wendy's have refused for years (eight and five years respectively) to join the CIW's groundbreaking Fair Food Program -- thereby refusing to guarantee fundamental human rights protections for the women and men who harvest our food. With the CIW and allies taking action in St. Pete, Miami, and Orlando, we will remind these two Fair Food holdouts that as long as they continue to turn their backs on farmworkers, the Fair Food Nation will raise our voices to demand justice in the fields! We will not allow Publix or Wendy's to continue rejecting farmworkers and consumers' urgent demands for justice, respect, and accountability.
The one-mile march will begin at 3pm at Allendale United Methodist Church (
3803 Haines Rd N
. in St. Petersburg).
More details next week, but hopefully a carpool from UUC will be forming.
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Important School Board Elections Coming Soon
Although FAST does not endorse candidates, the Youth Concerns Committee has
invited all the school board candidates to meet with them and discuss 0ur
concerns about the inequality in the schools as seen in the achievement gap
between white students and students of color. Please contact Linda Stoller if
you want to attend any of these meetings.
Members of our UUC FAST Justice Ministry as seen firsthand the importance of
having School Board Members who are willing to evaluate past problems
truthfully and to work with the community to find solutions. We have been
frustrated by the defensive stance of the School Board and their unwillingness
to even attend the Nehemiah Action. Only Joanne Lentino and Linda Lerner
came last year. Ms. Lerner is not running for reelection this year and Ms.
Lentino’s term is not up this year.
We can make a difference with our vote. UUC FAST Team encourages everyone
to attend a School Board Debate and vote in the Primary on August 28 th. We are
encouraging people to make sure that their voter registration is up to date and
to ask for a mail in ballot from the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections.
The School Board Debates as of right now are:
August 2, 2018 St. Petersburg College, Seminole Campus Digitorium
9200 113 th St. N. Seminole 6PM-8PM
July 30, 2018 St.Petersburg College Music Center 6 PM-8 PM
6605 5 th Ave N, St.Petersburg
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Members Art Show
Ongoing in the Octagon. As always there is some incredible work by our members and it's worth viewing each and every one. It will be hanging through September so be sure to take the time.
Viewing hours are 9-12 am Mon-Thurs and noon to 1:00 pm on Sundays
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Exhale is Weekly
Wednesdays 6-6:45 pm
A Gathering for Sitting and Moving Mindfulness.
Join us weekly in the Octagon for meditation and some quiet moments of mindfulness and connection. All levels of meditators welcome.
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UUC Committee Meetings and Events
Please get your meeting information to
events@uuc.org
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End of Life Choices
August 2nd, Thursday: 1:30-3:00 pm, Westwood Room
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FOOTNOTES FROM THE LIBRARY:
BLACK LIVES MATTER AT UUC!
A new addition:
"When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir"
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
...from the Amazon review:
Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.
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The Library is also expanding a shelf featuring UUC authors, but we need some help. The section is located just below the Unitarian Universalism section. Please stop by and see if your favorite UUC author is there, and more importantly, if you have copies of these UUC works, consider donating them to the Library.
Let me know about Books, CD's or other material that have had an impact on your Spiritual/Intellectual Journey!
Please let us know what they are because they might also be available to others.
Contact:
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Famous
UUs ...
Clara Barton
was born on Christmas Day, 1821, in Oxford, MA, into a Universalist family.
She was living in Washington, D.C. when the U.S. Civil War landed at her doorstep. She began nursing wounded soldiers in her sister's home, visiting the army camps, and was soon orchestrating the delivery of supplies from numerous Ladies Aid societies. After a short time, she began working on the front lines, delivering supplies and tending to wounded soldiers. Despite occasional bouts of illness, she continued her efforts, working alongside a host of women volunteers that included Dorothea Dix, Frances Dana Barker Gage, and Mary Livermore. Frances Gage became a close friend, and when Barton expressed frustration at the barriers women faced in her line of work, Gage introduced Barton to the women's rights movement. Barton and Gage also discussed their shared Universalist faith, which they both credited with influencing their work.
After the Civil War ended, Barton visited Europe and learned of the International Red Cross, an organization which had been established by the Geneva Convention. She returned home determined to start an American chapter, struggling against the prevailing political mood to advocate for the organization. In 1881 the American Red Cross was founded, but the first few years of the organization's existence were difficult. Barton's own health was often compromised by overwork, and although she was a passionate advocate for the agency's relief work, her lack of administrative skills often caused problems. She persevered, however, and served as the President of the Red Cross until 1904, when she retired at the age of 83. She died eight years later in 1912.
-Source UUA
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Puerto Rican Evacuees Back to School Festival,
August 2, 2018, UUC Community Center, 3:00-7:00 pm
Hosted
The Community Center (both sides) building has been reserved for the Puerto Rico Connect hosted festival...
* They will be giving away
* 100 backpacks full of school supplies donated by Duke Energy
* assistance with school registration
* Flu shots by Walgreen
* School physical by Pinellas Health Department
* RCS food bank registration
* food bags by Metropolitan Ministries & other
* Register to Vote - League of Women Voters
* English classes - St Petersburg College
** many other services
Their will be some outside tables (barbers doing haircuts and police K-9 unit & others.
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Spiritual Leadership in Communities of Faith: A Contemplative Retreat
begins on Sunday, July 29th and ends on Friday, August 3rd, 2018. The retreat will take place at the Transfiguration Spirituality Center near Cincinnati, Ohio and the tuition includes housing and all meals. Ther number of participants is limited to 24 divided into 3 categories: clergy, non-ordained religious professional, and lay leaders. There's still room in all categories. We will explore 4 areas of spiritual direction:
--What is spiritual direction/Guidance/companioning
-- Small group spiritual direction
-- The training and supervision of group leaders, and
-- Justice as a spiritual path.
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Apply for Clearwater's Citizens Academy Program
Post Date: 07/05/2018 11:04 AM
Learn About Government from the Inside Out
Applications are now being accepted for the 17th annual Citizens Academy, Clearwater 101, a ten-week program providing citizens with a hands-on learning experience about the people, equipment and infrastructure it takes to run Pinellas County’s second-largest city. The program will begin with orientation on Tuesday, Sept. 4 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The classes that follow will also be on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 8:30 p.m. through graduation on Nov. 15.
This interactive program is an educational experience for Clearwater residents interested in civic affairs. Sessions are led by elected officials, department directors and city staff who share information about the city’s operations and key issues facing Clearwater today. Participants must attend at least eight of the ten sessions in order to graduate at the City Council meeting on Nov. 15.
A selection committee will choose 20 participants from the applications received. The committee will judge applications based on responses to questions while ensuring that the class reflects the diversity of the Clearwater community, with representatives from different neighborhoods and sections of the city. For program information or to apply, visit
www.myclearwater.com/citizensacademy
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Applications must be received no later than Aug. 1.
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